My external 4X speed TDK DVD burner takes an hour to burn a DVD. My question is if I had an internal DVD burner and was burning at 4X speed would it still take that long???? I'm thinking of getting a 16X speed internal DVD burner but I have some left over blank 4X DVD's that I would be using up first.
Hi moranacus, welcome to aD, Burning speed is controlled by many things like your amount of RAM, your processor, and your quality settings. I would not mess with your burning speed. Those experienced members here, no matter what their burner choose to burn at 4X to avoid errors and achieve the best burns they can. I have a DL, 16X Pioneer 109 and a DL, 16X BenQ 1625 as well as a Pioneer 8X, 107 and a Nec 1300A (4X) and ALL are set to burn at 4X. Burning at *X and over will buy you coasters you wouldn’t have if burning at a slower speed. Always remember, Time = Quality When you concentrate on how fast you can do something, then be ready to accept the result to be of a poorer quality. It’s a fact of life. The choice of course is yours to make. Quality OR speed. It is a rare program that will give you both. Using proggys such as 1-Click, Copy95, XCopy, dvdSanta ICopyDVDs2 etc are great examples of speed programs that will give you a crappy backup while a free proggy like DVD Shrink, using it’s quality settings and taking anywhere from 1 to 3 hours will blow them all away, quality-wise. Cheers, Pete PS. A little trick ~ besides burning at 4X, reduce your DVD size from DVD-5 to “Custom” and then set it at 4360MB and ALWAYS, ALWAYS use decent media.
My old writer burnt at 2.4x and that was normally done within the half hour. So yes it would burn much faster but... if a 4x speed burn is taking that long I don't think that the drive is the problem. At 4x speed that should burn @ 5.5mb a second which converts to an ~15minute burn. What are your computer specs? *EDIT* Sorry about the superfluous post, (bloody servers )
Soooo sorry, All my talk and I didn't answer your question ~ Using your burner connected via a 2.0 USB connection is almost as fast as if you hooked it up through an IDE connect and it is faster than connecting it via Firewire. Moving to the inside won't show you a noticable difference in burning speed. OOOhh, a last note: Even using 16X media, always burn at 4Xfor the very best in DVD Video copying. If you are burning data, THEN go for the 12X OR 16X burn. That's how it got it's rating to begin with - Ciao, Pete
